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will sublimate

  • future tense
    of sublimate.
    sublimate
    verb (used with object)
    to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.

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"They will sublimate their partisanship," said Michael Shepherd, president of the Lincoln Club of Coachella Valley, a group founded to support Republican candidates.

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 18, 2011

We will sublimate the black bats of our rages into butterflies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Also to ascertain whether a substance under examination will sublimate volatile matter of a certain appearance.

From A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations by Anonymous